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Self management

Have you ever tried to change your life
style? Maybe exercise regularly or eat better with everything going on in our
daily life it can be hard for any of us obstacles like financial worries, lack
of transportation and stressful works can make it hard to make a change. Management
is not just for managers, just as leadership is not just for leaders. We all
manage, and we all lead; these are not actions reserved for only those people
who happen to hold these “positions” in a company. I personally think of management
and leadership as callings, and we all get these callings to manage
and lead at different times, and to different degrees.

Self-managed teams are the way that many
publicly respected organizations are achieving financial success and brand
loyalty today.

Having a team that is able to manage its self
in terms of productivity, quality, innovation, customer service and
profitability adds enormous bottom line value to any business.

Which is why despite these types of teams
taking a long time to establish and needing business owner and management
support for them to succeed, they are the latest trend in human resources
strategies.

Creating a
self-managed team is not simply
a matter of putting a bunch of highly talented and competent people together in
a room and expecting them to “gel”. They need to be given responsibilities,
goals, targets, parameters, milestones, deadlines, authority, accountabilities,
rewards and consequences.

This may sound like a lot of hand-holding, and
a lot of time for you to invest in a group of people you pays to get work done.
However, the benefits to you personally as the business owner and to your
business, at the end of the day, are substantial.

There is only one problem. When you focus your
attention on factors outside your control, you are by definition powerless. If
you want to be powerful, then you need to focus on the one factor you can always
control: You.

Focus on controlling you. You cannot ignore all
those outside factors that define the context of your situation. But you can
control what you can do within the context of your job and work situation.